There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place.
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Basic would never have surfaced because there was always a language better than Basic for that purpose.
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Technology is anything invented after you were born, everything else is just stuff.
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Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general’s warning.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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I think the trick with knowledge is to “acquire it, and forget all except the perfume” – because it is noisy and sometimes drowns out one’s own “brain voices”.
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Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.
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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc.
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So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
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Possibly the only real object-oriented system in working order. (About Internet)
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I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three.
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Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal – a sort of ‘voting’ situation.
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